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To ALL WHOM T MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, EDWARD NASON, WILLIAM NASON, and OLIVER K. NASON, of O'rncville, in the countyof Piscataquis, and State of Maine, have invented a new and improved Draught Attachment for Vehicles; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawingsfforming part of this specification, in which I Figure 1 is a side sectional view of our invention, taken in the line x 90, fig. 2. Figure 2, an inverted plan of the same.

Figure 3, a section of a portion of the same, taken in the line 3 y, fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in draught attachments for vehicles, and has for its object the ready attachment of a horse to a vehicle and ready detachment therefrom, and a strong and durable construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully shown' and described.

A represents a. pair of thills, which may be constructed in the usual or any proper manner, and B is a whifile-tree connected by a bolt, a, to the under side of the crossbar b of the thills.' To each end of the whfl'letree a rod, C, is attached, and these rods pass through guides, 0, attached to the under sides of the thills; said guides may be of either leather or metal, and the rods are allowed to work or slide freely in them. D represents the collar, which is constructed of two wooden parts, at (1, made in proper curved form, surrounded with a stufiing or filling, e, and covered with leather, (See fig. By this mode of construction a very economical collar is obtained, and one which will not be liable to gall or chafe the horse. The two parts of the collar are connected at their upper and lower ends by straps g g, or other suitable means. Each part of the collar has astrap, E, attached to it, said straps being secured to thewood portions (1 cl. The rear ends of these straps have snap-hooks F attached to them by buckles G. These'snap-hooks maybe constructed in any of the known forms, and they are fitted in eyes it at the front ends of the whifile-tree rods C C.

By this arrangement it will be seen that the horse may be very readily attached to and detached from the vehicle, and a very strong and durable draught apparatus obtained; far more sothan with the ordinary en tire leather traces. H H represent the hold-back irons. which are secured to the thills A A'by means of rings 2'- which encompass the thills', and hate rods j attached, which pass through the hold-back irons, and have nuts k on their outer ends. By screwing up these nuts k thehold-back irons are firmly secured on the thills, and they may be adjusted thereon further forward or backward, as may be required, with the greatest facility. The

breeching straps are attached to the irons H, and they may be arranged in the usual or in any ,proper manner,

-Having thus described our invent-ion, we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent The arrangement of the straps E, snap-hooks F, rods 0, in combination with thewhifile-tree B, and collar D, and operating in the manner and for the purpose herein specified.

EDWARD -NAS JN, WM. NASON, Witnesses: OLIVER K. NASON.

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